Mr Harper Goes to Copenhagen
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Um, what climate change rules? Ottawa puts up barrier to Sinopec bitumen exports. Ottawa says it will use its regulatory power to stop Chinese state-controlled Sinopec from exporting raw oil sands bitumen and refining it abroad to take advantage of looser climate-change rules.
Organized crime and the EU ETS Immature markets with poor oversight and cash on the table necessarily leads to fraud. Forget offset aggregation to make cash. Good old fraud is a growth business, so sayeth the article: "The participation of the United States and other major economies like Japan would create a global market that could be worth up to $3 trillion annually by 2020, compared with its current annual value of $130 billion"
A nice overview of where we are in Canadian climate policy Some interesting stuff here.
The disonnect between EUA prices, fundamentals A good read indeed. Some reasons why the EU is over allocating as the economy deflates, and energy markets price gas below coal. This is then driving fuel switching absent policy, and so leading to permit surpluses. This line says it all: "In the short-term, that means the market is structurally long, even before importing CERs or ERUs."
Scrap ETS and go for a carbon tax: Garnaut For those who have helped influence climate policy, there comes a time when your preference for a tax must be shelved in favor of cap-and-trade due to political pressures. This may explain Garnault's about face on cap-and-trade. Or perhaps I should say a tax in disquise -- low and fixed price ceiling.
Prentice insists he's a 'passionate conservationist' Apparently, inaction does not come from the Minister but the PM. Word on the street is that at least three climate policy proposals have been brought to cabinet and three have been rejected. So inaction as in prorogation comes from the top.
Twitter: nree_alberta- A ringing endorsement of #enbridge CEO Pat Daniel's handling of the #oilspill. #nree students, take note! http://bit.ly/9WU9Hy #oilsands
- re:poor Ft. Chip water quality: Ab Env ADM makes us feel better;in fact,all Ab lakes and rivers are unsafe for drinking http://bit.ly/do07P8
- Marlo Raynolds (@pembina) and Premier Stelmach to meet US speaker Nancy Pelosi on #oilsands. Should be interesting. http://bit.ly/9BXm6Z
- Glad someone wrote this. I never thought of him as a "denier" RT @duncankinney: The Lomborg "about-face" - http://ht.ly/2yfSP